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Monday, February 15, 2016

Information gathering with TheHarvester

The information gathering steps of foot printing and scanning are the most importance before hacking. My Goal is not encouraging you to use this tool for hacking purposes if your company like get news business this tool will really helpful to gathering the information about your client.

TheHarvester has been developed in Python by Christian Martorella.
It is a tool which provides us information of about e-mail accounts,
user names and hostnames/subdomains from different public Data sources like
search engines (google, googleCSE, bing, bingapi, pgp,linkedin, google-profiles, people123, jigsaw,twitter, googleplus, all).

This tool is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of
the penetration test in order to understand the customer footprint on
the Internet. It is also useful for anyone that wants to know what an
attacker can see about their organization.

TheHarvester supported are:-

Time delays between request

All sources search

Virtual host verifier

Active enumeration (DNS enumeration, Reverse lookups, TLD expansion)

Integration with SHODAN computer database, to get the open ports and banners

Save to XML and HTML

Basic graph with stats

New sources

Lets go to the tutorial:-

If your are using Kali Linux or Backtrack TheHarvester is Pre-installed software

In case, if it is not available in your distribution like Centos, Ubuntu or Fedora, than you can easily download it from TheHarvester, simply download it and extract it.

Provide execute permission to thetheHarvester.py by

[root@Techlanda ~]#chmod 755 theHavester.py

After getting in to that, simply run ./theharvester, it will display
version and other option that can be used with this tool with detailed
description.